[Corpora-List] studies of the language of discussion groups

[Gregor Erbach]

Quoting Przemyslaw Kaszubski <przemka at amu.edu.pl>:

> I'm asking this on behalf of a student: does anyone have any pointers to
> empirical studies of discussion group etc. language from a sociological
> perspective? Her topic is to demonstrate that such groups may be regarded
> as language communities. Apart from Crystal's Language and the Internet
> she has almost no sources.

A good source is the Journal of Computer Mediated Communication:
http://jcmc.huji.ac.il/vol2/issue4/

Another source is the Electronic Journal of communication:
http://www.cios.org/www/ejcmain.htm

The Berkeley Social Technologies group has performed research
on Usenet groups:
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/socialtech/

The following papers may be of interest:
http://www.ifi.uib.no/staff/konrad/research/culture/DalexApplicatICA98icapaper.h
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ibs.lgu.ac.uk/sympo/luistxo.PDF

> Apologies if you think this question is irrelevant to your interests.

Not at all; Usenet news are a rather interesting corpus
for studying all sorts of linguistic phenomena.

regards,

   Gregor

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